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Elizabeth Gaskell's Life
of Charlotte Bronte
(1857) is a pioneering
biography of one great
Victorian woman novelist
by another. This edition
is based on the Third
Edition of 1857, revised
by Gaskell and collated
with the manuscript and
the previous two
editions, as well as
with Charlotte Bronte's
letters, offering fuller
information about the
process of composition
than any previous
edition.
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This classic novel tells
the story of the orphaned
Emily St. Aubert who find
herself separated from
the man she loves and
confined within the
Castle of Udolpho. A new
introduction discusses
the Gothic Romance genre,
Radcliffe's use of the
supernatural and there
are explanatory textual
notes.
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In The Elementary Forms
of Religious Life,
Durkheim investigated the
enduring source of human
social identity and
fellowship by studying
the simplest form of
documented religion,
totemism among the
Aborigines of Australia.
His book about the origin
and nature of religion
and society continues to
enthrall sociologists,
anthropologists,
ethnographers,
philosophers, and
theologians.
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When Dr Philip Raven, an
intellectual working for
the League of Nations,
dies in 1930 he leaves
behind a powerful legacy
an unpublished dream
book'. Inspired by
visions he has
experienced for many
years, it appears to be
a book written far into
the future: a history of
humanity from the date of
his death up to 2105.
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Cicero (106-43 BC) was
the greatest orator of
the ancient world and a
leading politician of the
closing era of the Roman
republic. This book
presents nine speeches
which reflect the
development, variety,
and drama of his
political career. These
new translations achieve
new standards of
accuracy.
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Phileas Fogg was one of
those mathematically
exact people, who,
never hurried and always
ready, are economical of
their steps and their
motions. He never made
one stride too many,
always going by the
shortest route. He did
not give an idle look. He
did not allow himself a
superfluous
gesture. When Phileas
Fogg wagers a bet that he
can travel across the
globe in just eighty
days, little does he
know about the epic
journey that he is about
to undertake. With his
faithful French servant,
Passepartout, Phileas
Fogg embarks on the
adventure of a lifetime,
travelling across four
continents by whatever
means he can
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Laurence Sterne's
masterpiece of bawdy
humour and rich satire
defies any attempt to
categorize it. Part
novel, part digression,
its disordered narrative
interweaves the birth and
life of the unfortunate
hero Tristram Shandy,
the eccentric philosophy
of his father and the
amours of Uncle Toby.
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Augustus Melmotte is a
fraudulent foreign
financier who preys on
dissolute nobility,
using charm to tempt the
weak into making foolish
investments in his
dubious schemes.
Persuaded to put money
into a notional plot to
run a railroad from San
Francisco to Santa Cruz,
the capricious gambler
Felix Carbury soon
becomes one of his
victims.
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Emerging from the grit
and stigma of poverty to
a life of fairytale
privilege under the wing
of her aunt, the
beautiful and financially
ambitious Kate Croy is
already romantically
involved with promising
journalist Merton Densher
when they become
acquainted with Milly
Theale, a New York
socialite of immense
wealth.
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After the death of old Dr
Grantly, a bitter
struggle begins over who
will succeed him as
Bishop of Barchester. And
when the decision is
finally made to appoint
the evangelical Dr
Proudie, rather than the
son of the old bishop,
Archdeacon Grantly,
resentment and suspicion
threaten to cause deep
divisions within the
diocese.
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Setting out to make his
fortune, a young
traveller discovers the
remote and beautiful land
of Erewhon, and is given
a home among its handsome
citizens. But their
visitor soon discovers
that this ideal community
has its faults... This is
a humorous satire on
conventional virtues,
religious hypocrisy and
the unthinking acceptance
of beliefs.
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Combines mythology,
legend and human drama.
This book focuses on the
heroic deeds of Sigurd
the dragon slayer who
acquires magical
knowledge from one of
Odin's Valkyries. It
incorporates strands from
the oral narratives of
the fourth and fifth
centuries, when Attila
the Hun and other
warriors fought on the
northern frontiers of the
Roman Empire.
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The elegant verse and
subtle observation of the
Amores, The Art of Love,
and The Cures of Love
made their author the
talk of Rome. Ovid saw
love as a game at which
both sexes could play
without getting hurt - as
long as they stuck to his
rules, but primarily he
wrote these sparkling and
often erotic poems to
entertain, and after two
thousand years they still
give enormous pleasure.
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One of the great
storybooks of the middle
ages: a master
storyteller from the
thirteenth century
recounts classic tales of
Icelandic mythology along
with a lesson to young
poets on the importance
of learning, respecting,
and continuing
traditional Icelandic
poetic styles.
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Book Two of Rumi's
Masnavi is concerned with
the challenges facing the
follower of Sufi
enlightenment. It
interweaves stories and
homilies in order to
instruct followers of
Rumi, the great
thirteenth-century Muslim
mystic. Jawid Mojaddedi's
sparkling new
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Plantagenet Palliser,
the Duke of Omnium and
former Prime Minister of
England, is widowed and
wracked by grief.
Struggling to adapt to
life without his beloved
Lady Glencora, he works
hard to guide and support
his three adult children.
Palliser soon discovers,
however, that his own
plans for them are very
different from their
desires...
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I always deserve the best
treatment, because I
never put up with any
other. Beautiful, rich,
self-assured and witty,
Emma Woodhouse delights
in match-making those
around her, with no
apparent care for her own
romantic life. Taking
young Harriet Smith under
her wing, Emma sets her
sights on finding a
suitable match for her
friend. Chided for her
mistakes by old friend Mr
Knightley, it is only
when Harriet starts to
pursue her own love
interests that Emma
realises the true hidden
depths of her own heart.
Delightful, engaging and
entertaining, Emma is
arguably Austen's most
well-loved social comedy.
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Horace exposes the vices
and follies of his Roman
contemporaries in his
Satires, and the
Epistles include the
famous Art of Poetry,
whose advice on poetic
style influenced many
later writers and
dramatists. John Davie's
new prose translations
perfectly capture the
ribald style of the
original.
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Provides readers with a
vivid picture of ordinary
London life before the
war and the blitz changed
everything dramatically.
Set against the
background of the great
depression, this title
tells a story that
centres around the
arrival of a mysterious
Mr Gol
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A tale of violent
jealousy, sexual passion
and treachery, and a
portrayal of the
bourgeois society of
1840s Paris. It features
poor, plain spinster
Bette who is compelled to
survive on the patronage
of her socially superior
relatives in Paris: her
beautiful, saintly
cousin Adeline, the
philandering Baron Hulot
and their daughter
Hortense.
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A collection of stories
from the middle period of
the author's career that
show him exploring
complex, ambiguous and
often extreme emotions.
It presents characters
that face madness,
alienation and
frustration before they
experience brief,
ephemeral moments of
insight, often earned at
great cost, where they
confront the reality of
their existence.
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When Elizabeth Bennet
first meets eligible
bachelor Fitzwilliam
Darcy, she thinks him
arrogant and conceited;
he is indifferent to her
good looks and lively
mind. When she discovers
that Darcy has involved
himself in the troubled
relationship between his
friend Bingley and her
beloved sister Jane, she
is determined to dislike
him more than ever. In
the sparkling comedy of
manners that follows,
Jane Austen shows the
folly of judging by first
impressions and superbly
evokes the friendships,
gossip and snobberies of
provincial middle-class
life.
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Joseph K, a respectable
functionary in a bank,
is suddenly arrested and
must defend his innocence
against a charge about
which he can get no
information. K is never
told what he is on trial
for, and when he says he
is innocent, he is
immediately asked
'innocent of what'? Is he
perhaps on trial for his
innocence?
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Louise and Tome Gradgrind
are raised in the
fictitious Coketown,
England by their father.
Thomas Gradgrind, is a
pragmatic and harsh
educator, influencing
his children leading them
to be lead adult lives
that are lacking in all
areas. Witnessing their
plight, their father
realises his own
principles may have led
to their downfall.
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Wealthy, confident and
handsome, Charles Van
Drift is not accustomed
to being swindled and his
brush with Colonel Clay
both rattles and
infuriates him. As his
South African diamond
fortune takes hit after
hit from the quick-witted
master of disguise, Van
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Despite Jane Austen's
fame, many aspects of
her life remain an
enigma. She was born in
the rectory of the
Steventon, Hampshire,
one of eight children.
Until the age of 12 she
attended schools in
Oxford and Reading, and
thereafter was educated
at home. The Austen
household, described as
having an abundance of
spirit and vivacity, no
doubt influenced the
humorous writing that
Austen produced by the
age of 16, including a
'History of England',
and the opening scenes of
two comedies. Whilst at
Steventon, she began
writing the novels' First
Impressions' (Pride and
Prejudice), and 'Susan'
(Northanger Abbey). In
1801 the Austen's moved
to Bath, and two years
later 'Susan' was sold to
the publishers but
remained unpublished. In
1802 Austen accepted and
then declined a proposal
of marriage from family
friend Harris
Bigg-Wither; she remained
single for the rest of
her life. When her father
died in 1805 the family
moved to Southampton and
then to Chawton Cottage,
Hampshire. It was here
that Austen's literary
career flourished. She
revised 'Sense and
Sensibility' which in
1811 was published in 3
volumes under an
anonymous author. In 1813
the revised 'Pride and
Prejudice' was published
and met with great
success; henceforth the
novels were printed in
Austen's name. 'Mansfield
Park' was published in
1814, as she began to
work on ' Emma' -
dedicated by request to
HRH The Prince Regent and
which, on completion,
received praise from Sir
Walter Scott. Within the
following 2 years 'Emma',
'Persuasion' and the
revised 'Susan' were
completed. The effort of
writing took its toll and
Austen sickened with
Addison's Disease. She
moved to Winchester for
medical consultation and
was looked after by her
beloved sister Cassandra.
In 1817, aged 41 years,
she died in Cassandra's
arms. A year later
'Northanger Abbey' and
'Persuasion' were
published. 'Sanditon',
the work uncompleted
before her death, lasts
as a fascinating fragment
of literature,
promising, teasingly,
to surpass even 'Pride
and Prejudice' and
'Emma'.
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Focuses on the narrator's
love for Lou, a woman
with whom he had a brief
relationship and who has
become an obsession. This
is a novel that ponders
the despair of living in
a world devoid of love
and true companionship.
It draws an urbane
portrait of the life of
Parisians, describing
their insecurities,
their preoccupations and
their egotism.
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The ten stories collected
in this volume
demonstrate Tolstoy's
artistic prowess
displayed over five
decades experimenting
with prose styles and
drawing on his own
experiences with humour,
realism and compassion.
Inspired by his
experiences in the army,
The Two Hussars contrasts
a dashing father and his
mean-spirited son.
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'Only beauty can save the
world', proclaims Prince
Myshkin. But in the
brutally materialistic
world of late
nineteenth-century
Petersburg, infested
with greed and vulgarity,
Prince Myshkin's naive
beliefs can only be the
subject of mockery and
ultimately lead to
failure and tragedy.
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This is a lively,
readable and accurate
verse translation of the
six best plays by one of
the most influential of
all classical Latin
writers. The volume
includes Phaedra,
Oedipus, Medea, Trojan
Women, Hercules Furens,
and Thyestes, together
with an invaluable
introduction and notes.
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In a gloomy house in
provincial Saumur, the
miser Grandet lives with
his wife and daughter,
Eugenie, whose lives are
stifled and overshadowed
by his obsession with
gold. Guarding his piles
of glittering treasures
and his only child
equally closely, he will
let no one near them.
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Tells the life story of
David Copperfield, from
his birth in Suffolk,
through the various
struggles of his
childhood, to his
successful career as a
novelist. The early
scenes are particularly
masterful, depicting the
world as seen from the
perspective of a
fatherless, small boy,
whose idyllic life is
ruined when his mother
remarries.
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Roman playwright Terence
is one of the founding
fathers of European comic
drama. This new
translation of all six of
his comedies brings out
their liveliness and
performability and sets
them in the context of
Latin literature and the
history of comic drama.
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Mr Hawthorn himself steps
outside to allow his
porridge to cool and
disappears for 5 years
and more, a Glasgow
grocer is shipwrecked and
worshipped as a god, a
young mathematician
discovers an entirely new
aspect of reality and
becomes terrified by what
he finds there, and an
ageing sinner clings
grimly, weakly to a
hard-won life of decency.
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Capturing the literary
quality of "The Art of
War", this book presents
the core text in two
different formats. It
allows readers to form
their own first
impressions of the
ancient words of wisdom
ascribed to Sun-tzu. It
includes an introduction,
chronologies, suggested
readings, and other
apparatus.
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A young Brahmin searches
for ultimate reality
after meeting with the
Buddha. His quest takes
him from a life of
decadence to asceticism,
from the illusory joys of
sensual love with a
beautiful courtesan, and
of wealth and fame, to
the painful struggles
with his son and the
ultimate wisdom of
renunciation.
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A masterpiece of Russian
prose, Lermontov's only
novel was influential for
many later
nineteenth-century
authors, including
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and
Chekhov. It features
Pechorin who is a
dangerous man, Byronic
in his wasted gifts and
his cynicism, and
desperate for any kind of
action that will stave
off boredom.
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When the aristocratic
Lady Isabel abandons her
husband and children for
her wicked seducer, more
is at stake than moral
retribution. This edition
returns for the first
time to the racy,
slang-ridden narrative of
the first edition,
rather than the
subsequent stylistically
'improved' versions
hitherto reproduced by
modern editors.
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She had been forced into
prudence in her youth,
she learned romance as
she grew older: the
natural sequel of an
unnatural
beginning. Anne Elliot
is persuaded by her
friends and family to
reject a marriage
proposal from Captain
Wentworth because he
lacks fortune and rank.
More than seven years
later, when he returns
home from the navy, Anne
realises she still has
strong feelings for him,
but Wentworth only
appears to have eyes for
a friend of Anne's.
Moving, tender, but
intrinsically 'Austen' in
style, with its
satirical portrayal of
the vanity of society in
18th century England,
Persuasion celebrates
enduring love, hope and
determination as one
woman strives to reignite
a lost relationship.
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The Upanisads are the
central scriptures of
Hinduism, representing
some of the most
important literary
products in the history
of Indian culture and
religion. This major new
translation incorporates
the most recent
historical and
philological scholarship.
An introduction and
detailed notes make it
the ideal edition for
both specialists as well
as students of Indian
religions.
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Tarr is the blackly comic
story of the lives and
loves of two artists,
set against the backdrop
of Paris before the start
of the First World War.
The first edition to do
the novel justice, with
an introduction and notes
placing it in the context
of social satire and
avant-garde art
movements, offering new
insights into a major
Modernist novel.
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The greed of his family
has led wealthy old
Martin Chuzzlewit to
become suspicious and
misanthropic, leaving
his grandson and namesake
to make his own way in
the world. And so young
Martin sets out from the
Wiltshire home of his
supposed champion, the
scheming architect
Pecksniff, to seek his
fortune in America.
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Pyotr and Stavrogin are
the leaders of a Russian
revolutionary cell. Their
aim is to overthrow the
Tsar, destroy society
and seize power for
themselves. Together they
train terrorists who are
willing to go to any
lengths to achieve their
goals - even if the
mission means suicide.
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The young sailor Edmond
Dantes is arrested on his
wedding day and
imprisoned in the island
fortress of the Chateau
d'If. His daring escape,
recovery of Monte
Cristo's fabulous
treasure, and revenge on
his enemies make this one
of the great thrillers of
all time. This is a newly
revised, unabridged
translation.
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Fifteen men on the Dead
Man's Chest - Yo-ho-ho,
and a bottle of
rum! Upon finding a map
in his parents' inn,
young Jim Hawkins joins a
crew on route to the
Caribbean to find buried
treasure. One of his
crew, the charming yet
devious Long John Silver
is determined to snag the
booty for himself and
Jim's swashbuckling
voyage becomes a mutinous
and murderous adventure -
where his own bravery is
out to the test and he
discovers much about
friendship, loyalty and
betrayal.
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This selection brings
together thirty of
Woolf's best essays
across a wide range of
subjects including
writing and reading, the
role and reputation of
women writers, the art
of biography, and the
London scene. They are
enchanting in their own
right, and indispensable
to an understanding of
this great writer.
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Set in the summer of
1765, Redgauntlet
centres around a third,
fictitious Jacobite
rebellion and a plot to
enthrone the exiled
Prince Charles Edward
Stewart. The last of
Scott's major Scottish
novels, this is the only
available critical
edition. It reprints the
Magnum text of 1832.
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Son of a bankrupt
landowner, Frank Gresham
is intent on marrying his
beloved Mary Thorne,
despite her illegitimacy
and apparent poverty.
Frank's ambitious mother
and haughty aunt are set
against the match,
however, and push him to
save the family's
mortgaged estate by
making a good marriage to
a wealthy heiress.
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As the interminable case
of Jarndyce and Jarndyce
grinds its way through
the Court of Chancery,
it draws together a
disparate group of
people: Ada and Richard
Clare, whose inheritance
is gradually being
devoured by legal costs;
Esther Summerson, a ward
of court; the menacing
lawyer Tulkinghorn; and
the determined sleuth
Inspector Bucket.
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Suitable for recitation
at festivals, this title
includes 33 songs that
were written in honour of
the gods and goddesses of
the ancient Greek
pantheon. It features
songs that recount the
key episodes in the lives
of the gods, and
dramatise the moments
when they first appear
before mortals.
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Caught in the midst of
England's War of the
Roses, young Dick
Shelton's loyalties are
torn between a guardian
who betrays him and the
leader of the secret
fellowship, The Black
Arrow. In order to
survive he must
distinguish friend from
foe and confront the
tests of war, shipwreck,
murder and forbidden
love.
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In the vaulted Gothic
towers of Notre-Dame
lives Quasimodo, the
hunchbacked bellringer.
Mocked and shunned for
his appearance, he is
pitied only by Esmerelda,
a beautiful gypsy dancer
to whom he becomes
completely devoted.
Esmerelda, however, has
also attracted the
attention of the sinister
archdeacon Claude Frollo.
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Stoic philosopher and
tutor to the young
emperor Nero, Seneca
wrote moral essays -
exercises in practical
philosophy - on how to
live in a troubled world.
Strikingly applicable
today, his thoughts on
happiness and other
subjects are here
combined in a clear,
modern translation with
an introduction on
Seneca's life and
philosophy.
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In 1935, Henry Miller
set off from his adopted
residence, Paris, to
visit his home country -
America. He wrote an
account of his trip to
New York to his friend
Alfred Perles. This work
is filled with
impressions and
reflections, and
includes a sketch of his
journey, via steamer,
back to France.
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Pliny's letters provide a
fascinating insight into
Roman life in the period
97 to 112 AD. They
document politics,
social life, religion,
the educational system,
the treatment of slaves
and include a vivid
description of the
eruption of Vesuvius.
This is a lively and
sympathetic new
translation.
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When Chadwick Newsome,
favoured with fortune and
independence, becomes
entangled in a liaison
dangereux with a Parisian
temptress, his mother
deploys her future
husband, Strether, as
an ambassador to engineer
his safe return. But
seduced by the charms of
Paris and the bewitching
comtesse de Vionnet,
Strether soon deserts to
Chadwick's side.
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Presents a tale of two
young lovers kept apart
by a family feud. This
title tells how inspired
by the suicides of two
real-life sweethearts and
set in rural Switzerland,
the tale evokes the
overwhelming beauty of
young love and nature,
but is ultimately
pessimistic about the
possibility of such
beauty surviving in the
real world.
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This is the first
complete verse
translation of
Aristophanes' comedies to
appear for more than
twenty-five years and
makes freshly available
one of the most
remarkable comic
playwrights in the entire
Western tradition,
complete with an
illuminating introduction
including play by play
analysis and detailed
notes. Contains: Birds;
Lysistrata;
Assembly-Women; Wealth.
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The Republic, Plato's
masterwork, was first
enjoyed 2, 400 years ago
and remains one of the
most widely-read books in
the world: as a
foundational work of
Western philosophy, and
for the richness of its
ideas and virtuosity of
its writing. This title
pre
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Mathieu Delarue, a
philosophy teacher, has
so far managed to contain
sex and personal freedom
in separate compartments.
But now he is in trouble,
trying to raise 4, 000
francs to procure a safe
abortion for his
mistress, Marcelle.
Beyond all this,
filtering an uneasy light
on his predicament,
rises the threat of the
coming of the Second
World War.
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During the early weeks of
the Korean War, Captain
Lee, a young South
Korean officer, is
ordered to investigate
the kidnapping and mass
murder of North Korean
ministers by Communist
forces. For propaganda
purposes, the priests
are declared martyrs,
but as he delves into the
crime, Lee finds himself
asking: What if they were
not martyrs?
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Contains two stories -
Notes from Underground
and The Double. Notes
from Underground is a
study of a single
character, 'the real man
of the Russian majority'.
The Double is the story
of Mr Golyadkin, a man
who is haunted or
possessed by his own
double.
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Matthew Bramble, a
gout-ridden misanthrope,
travels Britain with his
nephew, niece, spinster
sister and man-servant,
the trusty Humphry
Clinker. In poor health,
Bramble sees the world as
one of degeneracy and
raucous overcrowding,
and will not hesitate to
let his companions know
his feelings on the
matter.
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To Paul Dombey, business
is all and money can do
anything. He runs his
family life as he runs
his firm: coldly,
calculatingly and
commercially. The only
person he cares for is
his little son, while
his motherless daughter
Florence craves affection
from her unloving father,
who sees her only as a
base coin that couldn't
be invested.
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Pierre et Jean marked a
turning point in the
development of French
fiction, situated as it
is between traditional
social realism and the
pyschological novel. It
is recognized as a
classic study of filial
jealousy and is also
notable for its evocation
of the Normandy coastline
captured by the
Impressionists.
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Presents a comprehensive
treatment of political
economy. This title
includes the author's
assessment of the
mercantile system, his
advocacy of the freedom
of commerce and industry,
and his prophecy that
'America will be one of
the foremost nations of
the world'.
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When Adela Quested and
her elderly companion Mrs
Moore arrive in the
Indian town of
Chandrapore, they
quickly feel trapped by
its insular and
prejudiced Anglo-Indian
community.
Determined to escape
the parochial English
enclave and explore the
real India, they seek
the guidance of the
charming and mercurial Dr
Aziz, a cultivated
Indian Muslim.
But a mysterious
incident occurs while
they are exploring the
Marabar caves with Aziz,
and the well-respected
doctor soon finds himself
at the centre of a
scandal that rouses
violent passions among
both the British and
their Indian subjects.
A masterly
portrait of a society in
the grip of imperialism,
A Passage to India
compellingly depicts the
fate of individuals
caught between the great
political and cultural
conflicts of the modern
world.
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ISBN:
9780141441160
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Author: E. M.
Forster
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Publisher:
Penguin
• Format:
Paperback
• Pages:
376
• Dimensions:
20 x 13 x
2.5cm
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Written by Ryunosuke
Akutagawa - one of
Japan's foremost stylists
and a modernist master
whose short stories are
marked by imagery,
cynicism, beauty, and
wild humour. His other
works include: Rashomon;
In a Bamboo Grove; The
Nose; O-Gin; Loyalty;
Death Register; The Life
of a Stupid Man; and
Spinning Gears.
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Edward Waverley, a
naive, sensitive young
man, is posted to
Scotland with his
regiment, and becomes
caught between the clans
of the Jacobite Rising
and the forces of the
Hanoverian regime. He
must decide whether he
will follow the
civilization he has
always known, or be
drawn into an older world
of honour and loyalty.
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Living in Rome under
Caligula and later a
tutor to Nero, Seneca
witnessed the extremes of
human behaviour. His
shocking and bloodthirsty
plays not only reflect a
brutal period of history
but also show how guilt,
sorrow, anger and desire
lead individuals to
violence.
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On his third birthday
Oskar decides to stop
growing. Haunted by the
deaths of his parents and
wielding his tin drum
Oskar recounts the events
of his extraordinary
life; from the long
nightmare of the Nazi era
to his anarchic
adventures is post-war
Germany.
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The Rainbow chronicles
the lives of three
generations of the
Brangwen family over a
period of more than 60
years, setting them
against the emergence of
modern England. In her
introduction to this
edition Kate Flint
illuminates Lawrence's
aims and achievements
against the background of
the burgeoning century.
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This authoritative
edition was formerly
published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors
series under the general
editorship of Frank
Kermode. It brings
together a unique
combination of Sidney's
poetry and prose,
including The Defence of
Poesy, substantial parts
of both versions of the
Arcadia, and the whole
of the sonnet sequence
Astrophil and Stella.
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Is Mr.Heathcliff a man?
If so, is he mad? And if
not, is he dead? Set on
the bleak moors of
Yorkshire, Lockwood is
forced to seek shelter at
Wuthering Heights, the
home of his new landlord,
Heathcliff. The intense
and wildly passionate
Heathcliff tells the
story of his life, his
all-consuming love for
Catherine Earnshaw and
the doomed outcome of
that relationship,
leading to his revenge.
Poetic, complex and
grand in its scope,
Emily Bronte's
masterpiece is considered
one of the most unique
gothic novels of its
time.
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Who but the Marquis de
Sade would write, not of
the pain, tragedy, and
joy of love but of its
crimes? Murder,
seduction, and incest
are among the cruel
rewards for selfless love
in his stories; tragedy,
despair, and death the
inevitable outcome. This
new selection includes
'An Essay on Novels',
Sade's penetrating survey
of the novelist's art.
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Take nothing on its
looks; take everything on
evidence, There's no
better rule. Living with
his sister and her
husband, Pip is an
orphan without any
expectations. It is only
when he begins to visit a
rich old woman, Miss
Havisham and her adopted
niece that he begins to
hope for something
better. When it is
revealed that Pip has
inherited a large sum of
money from a mysterious
benefactor on the
condition that he moves
to London to become a
gentleman, Pip's
adventure really begins.
Epic, illuminating and
memorable, Dickens'
mysterious tale of Pip's
quest to find the truth
about himself is one of
his most enduring and
popular novels to date.
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Gaskell's depiction of a
fallen woman as her
heroine shocked
contemporary readers.
Ruth is seduced and
heartlessly abandoned but
finds shelter and love
with her illegitimate
child until a twist of
fate brings her past back
to haunt her. This new
edition explores the
novel's radicalism and
cultural influence.
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Ruth Hilton, an orphan
and dressmaker's
assistant, is seduced
and then heartlessly
deserted by the wealthy
Henry Bellingham. A
dissenting minister
advises her to pass as a
widow and be employed as
a governess with the
tyrannical Mr Bradshaw.
However, the deceit
brings grievous
consequences.
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Basil Ransom, a young
Mississippi lawyer
arrives to Boston in
search of a career.
Through his cousin,
Olive Chancellor, Ransom
comes to meet Verena,
the beautiful daughter of
a charlatan faith-healer.
Olive hopes to win the
girl over to the feminist
cause, Ransom is
attracted to her looks,
and a battle for
possession of the girl
begins.
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Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
was the first American
woman to deal with
women's roles as wives
and mothers. This book,
her most famous novel,
concerns a woman
dissatisfied with her
indifferent husband. It
is an indictment of the
religious and social
pressures brought to bear
on women who transgress
restrictive Victorian
codes of behaviour.
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This is the largest
selection of Stoic
philosopher and tragedian
Seneca's letters
currently available. In
them Seneca advises his
friend Lucilius on how to
do without what is
superfluous, whether on
the subject of happiness,
riches, reputation, or
the emotions. We learn
too about Seneca's
personal and political
life in the time of Nero.
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Keats's letters are 'the
most notable and most
important ever written by
any English poet' (T. S.
Eliot). This new edition
revises and updates
Robert Gittings's
selection and includes
170 letters, a new
introduction and notes,
list of correspondents
and full index
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Oh! Mamma, how
spiritless, how tame was
Edward's manner in
reading to us last night!
I felt for my sister most
severely. Yet she bore it
with so much composure,
she seemed scarcely to
notice it. I could hardly
keep my seat. Spirited
and impulsive, Marianne
Dashwood is the complete
opposite to her
controlled and sensible
sister Elinor. When it
comes to matters of the
heart, Marianne is
passionate and romantic
and soon falls for the
charming, but unreliable
Mr Willoughby. Elinor,
in contrast, copes
stoically well with the
news that her love,
Edward Ferrars is
promised to another. It
is through their shared
experiences of love that
both sisters come to
learn that the key to a
successful match comes
from finding the perfect
mixture of rationality
and feeling.
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Tells the story of
darkest episode in
"Trojan War". At its
centre is Achilles,
greatest warrior-champion
of Greeks, and his
refusal to fight after
being humiliated by his
leader Agamemnon. But
when Trojan Hector kills
Achilles' close friend
Patroclus, he storms
back into battle to take
revenge - even though he
knows this may ensure his
own death.
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Chronicles the lives of
three generations of the
Brangwen family, setting
them against the
emergence of modern
England. This work
examines the
relationships and the
conflicts they bring,
and the inextricable
mingling of the physical
and the spiritual.
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Now available in the
revolutionary new
flipback format, giving
book-lovers a real
reading experience sized
to fit in a shirt pocket
and optimized for easy
one-handed reading. The
flipback is a new kind of
book, which opens top to
bottom and has
sideways-printed text,
so you get a full length
novel in little more than
the size of an iPhone.
Printed on very thin,
but strong, paper with
normal sized text, these
books have special spines
that allow them to stay
open without a struggle.
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Machiavelli's commentary
on Livy's history of Rome
sets out his fundamental
preference for a
republican state. This
translation is richly
annotated, providing the
contemporary reader with
sufficient historical,
linguistic, and
political information to
understand and interpret
the revolutionary
affirmations Machiavelli
made, based on the
historical evidence he
found in Livy.
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With its rich and
ebullient language,
ironic twists and
startling juxtapositions,
Dead Souls (1842) stands
as one of the most
dazzling and poetic
masterpieces of the
nineteenth century. This
brilliant new translation
by Christopher English is
complemented by a superb
introductory essay by the
pre-eminent Gogol
scholar, Robert Maguire.
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The Sonnets, by William
Shakespeare deal with the
themes of love, beauty
and mortality.
Shakespeare's sonnets are
frequently more earthy
and sexual than
contemporary sonnet
sequences by other poets.
One interpretation is
that Shakespeare's
Sonnets are in part a
pastiche or parody of the
three centuries-long
tradition of Petrarchan
love sonnets.
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This is the fullest
collection of La
Rochefoucauld's writings
ever published in
English, and includes
the first complete
translation of the
Miscellaneous
Reflections. A table of
alternative maxim numbers
and an index of topics
help the reader to locate
any maxim quickly.
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Contains the descriptions
of North America, a
bountiful land of grapes
and vines, discovered by
Vikings five centuries
before Christopher
Columbus. This title
counts the Icelandic
settlement of Greenland
by Eirik the Red and the
chance discovery by
seafaring adventurers of
a mysterious new land.
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It happened one day about
noon, going towards my
boat, I was exceedingly
surprised with the print
of a man's naked foot on
the shore.. Shipwrecked
in a storm at sea,
Robinson Crusoe is washed
up on a remote and
desolate island. As he
struggles to piece
together a life for
himself, Crusoe's
physical, moral and
spiritual values are
tested to the limit. For
24 years he remains in
solitude and learns to
tame and master the
island, until he finally
comes across another
human being. Considered a
classic literary
masterpiece, and
frequently interpreted as
a comment on the British
Imperialist approach at
the time, Defoe's fable
was and still is revered
as the very first English
novel.
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A lonely twelve-year-old
is befriended and is
infatuated by a suave,
mysterious baron. When
his adored friend
heartlessly brushes him
aside and turns his
seductive attentions to
his mother, the boy's
jealousy and feelings of
betrayal become
uncontrollable. This
title is set in an
Austrian sanatorium in
the 1920s.
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Mowgli, the man-cub is
brought up by wolves in
the jungles of Central
India. As he embarks on a
series of thrilling
escapades, Mowgli
encounters such
unforgettable creatures
as Bagheera, the
graceful black panther,
and Shere Khan, the
tiger with the blazing
eyes.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all
the castles in the air
which we make could come
true, and we could live
in them. A heart-warming
tale of love, sisterhood
and hardship during the
American Civil War,
Little Women tells the
story of the lovable
March family. Meg, Beth,
Jo and Amy try to
support their mother at
home while their father
is away at war and enter
into various scrapes and
adventures as they do so.
Alcott beautifully
interweaves bad times and
good as her characters
struggle with the trials
and tribulations of
growing up and their
relationships with one
another.
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Born at the stroke of
midnight at the exact
moment of India's
independence, Saleem
Sinai is a special child.
However, this
coincidence of birth has
consequences he is not
prepared for: telepathic
powers connect him with
1, 000 other 'midnight's
children' all of whom are
endowed with unusual
gifts.
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